Re: FIXMBR redux

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:24:43 -0700

Here's a thought, though I'm not sure it would work because it will place a
file on your unbootable drive but you might use the option to log the boot
on the bootable drive (You find this option, I've forgotten the name for the
moment) on the same menu as Safe Mode; boot the system, start tapping F8,
select the appropriate option which will be obvious by the name and check
that log.

Then do the same thing on the unbootable drive, it too, should create a
bootlog. If you can access it, you might be able to compare the two and see
on what exactly the boot is choking. 

-- 
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:40BE75F4.3040005@nospam.org...
> Sharon, between Michael's help and yours, I've made
> a bit of progress. On my 'cloned' OS, removing the
> call from boot.ini let it boot past the choice between
> XP and RC....to the black with WIN XP Logo screen....
> past there to the light blue WIN XP Logo screen (that's
> good)....but the bad part is that what also belongs on
> that screen is "Loading your personal settings" (but
> isn't there), and that it doesn't load my personal
> settings and proceed on.
>
> Also bad is that the file and folder  mentioned in the
> Delete RC document, I never found, but then again maybe
> that isn't all bad, since I was supposed to delete them
> anyway.
>
> So that takes me to a specific place in the start-up, where
> perhaps you can diagnose why it hangs at that particular
> spot.
>
> I hope you can see why I don't try this on my working Master
> system; if I tgo there and delete the last line in boot.ini,
> I'd very likely have a Master system, now working, that would
> no longer boot all the way, and then I'd have two non-
> working systems. Right now I only have one, and we have to fix
> that one, not the Master.
> -- 
>                    William B. Lurie

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